George Kenney
✓ Source-basedrisingUnited States Army general (1889-1977)
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George Churchill Kenney was a United States Army general during World War II. He is best known as the commander of the Allied Air Forces in the Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA), a position he held between August 1942 and 1945.
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![Kenney is 2nd from right top row.[7]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/91st_Aero_Squadron_-_November_1918.jpg/500px-91st_Aero_Squadron_-_November_1918.jpg)
Kenney is 2nd from right top row.[7]
Captain George Kenney in c. 1920
DH.4 above the clouds in France. Kenney flew this aircraft in Texas, and later developed techniques for mounting machine guns on the wings
Kenney was a proponent of close air support, and did not want the US to focus so strongly on strategic bombing, as represented by the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
Senior Allied commanders in New Guinea in October 1942. Left to right: Mr. Frank Forde; General Douglas MacArthur; General Sir Thomas Blamey; Lieutenant General George Kenney; Lieutenant General Edmund Herring; Brigadier General Kenneth Walker
Kenney (center) surrounded by his staff
U.S. A-20 Havoc of the 89th Squadron, 3rd Attack Group, at the moment it clears a Japanese merchant ship following a successful skip bombing attack. Wewak, New Guinea, March 1944Awards 5
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Hoyt VandenbergAlso won National Aviation Hall of Fame
Thomas McGuireAlso won National Aviation Hall of Fame
Bud AndersonAlso won National Aviation Hall of Fame
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.Also won National Aviation Hall of Fame
Frank Maxwell AndrewsAlso won National Aviation Hall of Fame
Clyde CessnaAlso won National Aviation Hall of FameAbout this person
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deceased
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Lived 1889 to 1977 · aged 88
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